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‘The banking giant HSBC is today accused by a former Director of Public Prosecutions of engaging in “a systematic and profitable collusion in serious criminal activity”. In a damming intervention Lord Ken Macdonald, who led […]
‘The chief executive of crisis-hit HSBC sheltered millions of pounds in a Swiss bank account, it was claimed last night. Leaked files reportedly show that Stuart Gulliver held £5million in the bank’s Geneva-based subsidiary that […]
‘The anti-obesity drive by the Government is being overseen by a firm receiving millions of pounds to promote junk food, it has emerged. PR firm Freud Communications is being paid £3million a year to run […]
‘One of Parliament’s longest serving MPs has dismissed reports that Labour could win his seat even if its candidate was an “alcoholic sex paedophile”. Veteran MP Austin Mitchell has represented the Labour stronghold of Great […]
‘As Greece celebrates the inauguration of its anti-austerity government, the euphoria should be tempered with a bit of realism. Although new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who named his son «Ernesto» after Cuban revolutionary Ernesto «Ché» […]
For all the third-party analysis, punditry and opinions such as this one by the Irish finance minister Michael Noonan: “Their political problem is that this a reversal of their election position. There is absolutely nothing […]
‘In August of 2013 former detective Rodolfo Gomez savagely beat Deron Love during an interrogation. He was chained to the wall. Love, 27, was accused of killing his 7-month-old baby, a charge he would not […]
‘The eyes are the windows to the universe, and some would say they are also windows to the soul. We have heard this phrase get passed around before: “The eyes are the windows of the […]
‘I saw a poster the other day, proclaiming “Please Do Not Feed The Fears” with a play on “Fears” rather than “Bears”. The sentiment expressed is unfortunately so typical of everything that is wrong with […]
‘They were hailed by the Government as “a new stage in Britain’s green energy investment boom”: five big new offshore wind farm projects, awarded £12 billion in subsidy contracts less than a year ago. But […]
‘Australia is to toughen citizenship laws and tackle those inciting hatred under new measures targeting domestic extremists, PM Tony Abbott has said. He said citizenship for dual nationals involved in terrorism could be suspended or […]
‘Austerity may be hitting some countries hard, but looking at certain EU funded projects, one would never know. From Brandenburg Airport to Donkeypedia, these and other white elephants are flushing billions of taxpayer’s euros down […]
‘The American West is not the only region of the world experiencing historically severe drought. Parts of the largest nation in South America — Brazil — are currently suffering through their worst periods of drought […]